In linux mint the default web browser is mozilla firefox. In firefox the default search engine is yahoo. And it also comes with four other search engines like Startpage, DuckDuckGo, Amazon.com and Wikipedia. If your are google fan then you…
Linux mint 18 mate comes with open JDk 8 by default. Open JDK and Oracle JDK both have almost the same code of the classes in the Java API. But OpenJDK tends to use open libraries and Oracle JDK tends to use closed ones. And if you want to install Oracle JDK 8 on Linux Mint, please follow the below steps.
Install Oracle JDK 8 on Linux Mint 18
Go to Oracle JDK8 download page. And download the latest linux jdk in .tar.gz format.
Here its (32 bit) jdk-8u102-linux-i586.tar.gz
Note:change the JDK version in the command according to your jdk version.
Copy your JDK .tar.gz file to your Desktop.
Open Terminal. To open terminal click the Main Linux Mint Menu, then go to system tools and select Terminal or type terminal in the search field or click the Terminal icon in taskbar.
In Ubuntu, Terminal app is a very powerful and useful CLI app(command line interface). It is used to tell the computer what to do via commands. How to manage ubuntu terminal profiles: In ubuntu terminal, profile is a collection of…
Wallpaper Contest for Ubuntu 16.10 is open for submissions. Ubuntu 16.10 yakkety yak desktop is due for release in this October.Wallpaper submission period ends on 26 September 2016. Rules and Requirements: Image must be your own. Members can post upto…
Microsoft PowerShell is a task automation and configuration management framework from Microsoft. PowerShell consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language built on the .NET Framework.Now Microsoft open sources the PowerShell and available for Linux and Mac users. Install…
Bing Desktop Wallpaper Changer is a free python script from the developer Utkarsh Gupta. This script automatically updates your Ubuntu desktop wallpaper to the current bing.com image of the day background picture. This script will run automatically at the startup and works on Linux with Gnome.
To install Bing Desktop Wallpaper Changer on Ubuntu, Open your terminal. To open terminal click the Dash home from unity launcher.And type terminal in the search field. And click Terminal.
Type the below command in the terminal and hit enter.
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The default Apache2 web server document root is /etc/www/html. This can be sometimes annoying because of permission issues. You can change the default apache web server document root folder to a new folder in your Home folder.
Change apache web server document root in ubuntu
Here my Apache version: 2.4.18 (Ubuntu 16.04)
To change the default Apache2 web server document root ie: /etc/www/html/ to any other folder in Home folder ie: /home/manikandan/www/
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uGet is a free Download Manager for Linux, mac OS, Windows, BSD and android. It is light weight but powerful download manager. The main feature of this download manager is resume support. You don’t need to start the download from beginning of the download.
Unity Tweak Tool is a free customization and settings manager for the Unity desktop. Using this tool you can configure Ubuntu’s default desktop environment, unity. You can install the Unity Tweak Tool via the Ubuntu software or from ubuntu’s base repositories and ppa via terminal.
Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail client and developed by the Mozilla Foundation.
Backup thunderbird profile:
Open the Thunderbird program. Click the menu button. And go to Help -> Troubleshooting Information.
In the new Troubleshooting Information window, click the Show Folder (in windows) or Open Directory (in Ubuntu) button. It will open the thunderbird current profile folder. Just exit the thunderbird program and copy all files from thunderbird profile folder.
